Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulldogs will have to do more than bark to drown out the Crimson stands in the Yale Bowl two weeks from Saturday, for the Band has announced that they definitely will make the trip to New Haven in full strength...
...still wet. To David Lloyd George he wrote prophetically: "This Treaty breathes a poisonous spirit of revenge which may yet scorch the fair face, not of a corner of Europe, but of Europe." Of his yapping nationalistic political enemies in Africa he has often said: "The dogs bark, but the caravan moves...
Twenty or more thousand square miles in northern Honan Province are clutched in the grip of hunger. Men and women are eating the bark of trees and grass roots; swollen-bellied children are being sold for grain. Thousands have already died, hundreds of thousands are failing, ten millions face the slow winter-long agony of starvation. Causes: 1) the Japanese, who destroyed the rice before they retreated; 2) the gods, who sent no rain for the wheat...
...cuckoo is momentarily baffled by a nest built in a hollow tree or other enclosed space with an aperture too small for her to enter. In this case the cuckoo just hangs at the entrance of the hole (by clinging to the edge of the nest, a twig, or bark of the tree) and lets...
Chicagoans nostalgically recalled the lush days of gangsterism when Chicago was good for a cadaver a night. Again they wondered when the sawed-offs would bark, wondered whose blood would run and where...